TOSSED Synonyms: 150 Similar and Opposite Words

tossed

verb

past tense of toss

as in lurched

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas

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as in jerked

to make jerky or restless movements tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat

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as in threw

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm toss that football over here

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as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use

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Recent Examples of tossed Roman Reigns tossed the chair aside, moving past his obsession. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Joe Mack homered, Xavier Edwards added an RBI single and Sandy Alcantara tossed six-plus solid innings for the Marlins, who won the final three games of the four-game series. — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026 Roxanne Perez distracted the referee while Raquel Rodriguez tossed Sky down from the top rope. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Tyler Phillips tossed five solid innings and earned the win Saturday for the visiting Miami Marlins, who continued surging with a 6-2 victory over the New York Mets in the third game of a four-game series. — Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2026 Drake Maye and Tommy DeVito both tossed interceptions during team drills in the team’s third consecutive padded practice. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2026 Fans loudly chanted along to her songs and danced while an inflatable horse was being tossed around in the audience. — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 Hitter of the Year Sami Williams’ bat was silenced at the hands of the Talons’ aces — Georgina Corrick also tossed a complete-game gem in Game 1 — going hitless in Chicago’s revenge effort. — Molly Keshin, New York Times, 26 July 2026 Money has started to enter into the equation with high school athletes, players cannot only legally accept NIL deals at the prep level, but there is also money being tossed around illegally, as athletes are enticed to transfer to certain schools. — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026

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For example, New York endured weather whiplash on July 18 as the city lurched from a heat wave and smoke pollution from Canadian wildfires to flash flooding from slow-moving thunderstorms that dumped a few inches of rain in a short period of time.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
There are vivid characters—the rich, distinguished crook Brandon, the platinum-blond secretary Miss Vermilyea; Javonen, ex-military intelligence, and seedy private eye from Kansas, Noble, who might have lurched out of an early Graham Greene story.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of lurched

Verb

Once the squid gather near the surface, lines fitted with bait are lowered into the water and rapidly jerked up and down to imitate small prey such as shrimp, triggering strikes before the catch is reeled aboard.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
Suddenly, the tent jerked and wobbled.

— Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026

Definition of jerked

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Cade Gibson, Calvin Faucher and Tyler Zuber combined to allow one run over three innings before Pete Fairbanks threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his 16th save.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
Pete Fairbanks, the Marlins' fifth pitcher, threw just seven pitches while earning his 16th save with a perfect ninth.

— CBS News, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

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In 2015, the last year fishing was allowed around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the longline fishing fleet caught and discarded more than 7,000 sharks.

— NPR, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
Russia’s answer to the Artemis program is to develop its own Russian Orbital Station, using modules from the International Space Station after it has been discarded, which would act as a gateway for lunar exploration.

— Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026

Definition of discarded

Verb

Either way, there’s a lot on the line for Dodge, as millions of enthusiasts’ opinions about the Charger will be swayed one way or another by the end of it.

— Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 30 July 2026
Playing with All-Stars Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Jaylen Brown surely swayed James more than Barkley.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 July 2026

Definition of swayed

Verb

One woman ordered some home furniture while two children fidgeted nearby.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
Between each dance was an excruciating silence during which network-TV producers monitored and reset their equipment while the men fidgeted onstage like excitable children.

— Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026

Definition of fidgeted

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While the violent mobs who hurled stones at marchers in 1966 are long gone, civil rights advocates say their demands remained strikingly familiar and that the threat to democracy has not disappeared.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Resinous pine cones can also ignite and be hurled hundreds of meters by wind, helping fire spread.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of hurled

Verb

The Swannanoa River, across Highway 70 from Barker's street, rose to historic levels after Hurricane Helene dumped intense rainfall on the Appalachian region, after the area had already been hit by a storm just days before.

— Ginger Zee, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The wind whips up sewage dried to a powder that's been dumped for years onto an arid riverbed near the fishing settlement of Rehri Goth, on the outskirts of the Pakistani port city of Karachi.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026